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The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on Wednesday recalled the guidance and pieces of advice he gave to Works and Housing Minister, Francis Asenso-Boakye and Managing Director of State Housing Company Ltd, Mr Kwabena Ampofo Appiah during their childhood urging the duo not to depart from them in their current portfolios.
The Asantehene said he was happy to have seen the upbringing and progress especially of Francis Asenso-Boakye who is now the Member of Parliament for the Bantama Constituency, the heartbeat of Kumasi politics.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II expressed optimism that the pair of the Works and Housing Minister and the State Housing Company Managing Director would work around the clock to decrease the prevailing housing deficit.
State Housing Company provides descent accommodation for GIS
Mr Appiah Ampofo (L) handing over the keys to the project to GIS
The Managing Director of State Housing Company Limited, Kwabena Ampofo Appiah, has put meaning to the resolve of the Nation’s Number One Builder to partner state institutions to provide accommodation facilities as for their Staff as well as office facilities.
The vision came to reality in Sunyani, Friday morning, as the SHC MD handed over keys of newly constructed houses to the Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame AsuahTakyi, as part of the Institutional Housing Scheme initiative by Management.
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his administration is still committed to embarking on its affordable housing projects.
In his State of the Nation Address delivered on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, the President said his intension is to place emphasis on resolving the housing deficit in the country.
According to him, tackling the issue was long overdue, stressing, “Mr. Speaker, it is my intention to place special emphasis on resolving the problems of the housing sector in the country because tackling the housing deficit is long overdue”.
He said: ”Under housing, the Government of Ghana Affordable Housing Programme, which seeks to increase access to safe, secure, adequate and affordable housing units across the country, is continuing in earnest. Thus far, one thousand, four hundred and sixty-four housing units in Borteyman, one thousand, and twenty-seven (1,027) in Asokore Mampong, and three hundred and twelve (312) housing projects